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cs.SC2026

StabQ: Quantum Program Analysis via Weighted Stabilizer Representations

Shangzhou Xia, Junjie Luo, Jianjun Zhao

Quantum program analysis remains challenging due to the exponentially large state space of quantum programs and the difficulty of precisely characterizing their execution behavior.…

cs.LG2026

Branch and Bound for Relational Verification of Neural Networks

Kota Fukuda, Zhenya Zhang, Guanqin Zhang +1

Verification of neural networks against relational specifications, such as global robustness, is crucial for safety-critical applications of cyber-physical systems (CPS), given the…

cs.SE2026

Benchmarking Quantum Software Testing with Scalable Quantum Programs

Yuechen Li, Minqi Shao, Xiyuan Li +2

Quantum software testing (QST) checks whether quantum programs behave according to their intended specifications. A key requirement for QST research is a benchmark that supports ri…

cs.LG2026

Quantum vs. Classical Machine Learning: A Unified Empirical Comparison

Chuanming Yu, Jiaming Liu, Zihao Ge +4

Quantum computing has emerged as a promising computational paradigm for machine learning (ML), with the potential to offer computational advantages over classical approaches. At th…

cs.AI2026★ 1 cited

Precise Verification of Transformers through ReLU-Catalyzed Abstraction Refinement

Hengjie Liu, Zhenya Zhang, Jianjun Zhao

Formal verification of transformers has become increasingly important due to their widespread deployment in safety-critical applications. Compared to classic neural networks, the i…

cs.CL2026

Making Every Verified Token Count: Adaptive Verification for MoE Speculative Decoding

Lehan Pan, Ziyang Tao, Xiao Wang +3

Tree-based speculative decoding accelerates autoregressive generation by verifying multiple draft candidates in parallel, but this advantage weakens for sparse Mixture-of-Experts (…

cs.SE2026

QuanForge: A Mutation Testing Framework for Quantum Neural Networks

Minqi Shao, Shangzhou Xia, Jianjun Zhao

With the growing synergy between deep learning and quantum computing, Quantum Neural Networks (QNNs) have emerged as a promising paradigm by leveraging quantum parallelism and enta…

quant-ph2026

QSolver: A Quantum Constraint Solver

Shangzhou Xia, Haitao Fu, Jianjun Zhao

With the growing interest in quantum programs, ensuring their correctness is a fundamental challenge. Although constraint-solving techniques can overcome some limitations of tradit…

cs.SE2026

QEMI: A Quantum Software Stacks Testing Framework via Equivalence Modulo Inputs

Junjie Luo, Shangzhou Xia, Fuyuan Zhang +1

As quantum algorithms and hardware continue to evolve, ensuring the correctness of the quantum software stack (QSS) has become increasingly important. However, testing QSSes remain…

cs.SE2026

Software Testing in the Quantum World

Rui Abreu, Shaukat Ali, Paolo Arcaini +11

Quantum computing offers significant speedups for simulating physical, chemical, and biological systems, and for optimization and machine learning. As quantum software grows in com…

quant-ph2026

QSPE: Enumerating Skeletal Quantum Programs for Quantum Library Testing

Jiaming Ye, Fuyuan Zhang, Shangzhou Xia +4

The rapid advancement of quantum computing has led to the development of various quantum libraries, empowering compilation, simulation, and hardware backend interfaces. However, en…

quant-ph2026

A Methodological Analysis of Empirical Studies in Quantum Software Testing

Yuechen Li, Minqi Shao, Jianjun Zhao +1

In quantum software engineering (QSE), quantum software testing (QST) has attracted increasing attention as quantum software systems grow in scale and complexity. Since QST evaluat…